Mark Kimmerman

Birds

Birds are great. You ever see them flying around? I get a lot of joy and fascination out of sharing an environment with them. Credit to my mom for drawing my attention to them as a kid.

As other topics on this site demonstrate, I like to learn by organizing information. Here, I'm motivated to:

Identify birds by sound when I only know them by sight
Identify new birds by both sight and sound
Get a feel for which birds appear in which seasons

Childhood Classics

American Robin

Often called a sign of spring, though I see them year round. There's something special about hearing their song at dawn.

Black-capped Chickadee

My mom's favorite bird. Often the first bird to visit a new feeder.

Mourning Dove

I often see them sitting on wires. Their wings whistle when they take off.

North Cambridge Crew

Red-winged Blackbird

These fly around the marsh by our home. The female is streaky brown.

Gray Catbird

Apparently it's named for its cat-like call but that's not any cat I know.

Attribution

Frequency Data

Observation frequency data from eBird, a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Audio Recordings